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The MEDEA PROJECT continues to stage a variety productions at San Francisco venues including Theatre Artaud, The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre and The Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena Gardens. These performances have included: Reality is Just Outside the Window (1992), Food Taboos in the Land of the Dead (1993), A Taste of Somewhere Else: A Place at the Table (1994), Buried Fire (1996), Requiem for a Dead Love (1998), Slouching Towards Armageddon: A Captive's Conversation/Observation on Race (1999), and Can We Get There By Candlelight? (2001).

Can We Get There By Candlelight	Dates: November 2002

Requiem for a Dead Love	Dates: March, June, September 1998

Requiem for a Dead Love, directed by Rhodessa Jones, was a collaboration between Cultural Odyssey's The Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women and Glide Memorial Church's "Breaking the Cycle" Domestic Violence Project. Funding for this unique partnership was made possible by a grant from the Comission On The Status Of Women of the City and County of San Francisco. Rhodessa Jones worked with women survivors of domestic violence and artists from San Francisco's multi-cultural community in a production that directly addressed issues of violence against women. The performance was born out of several months of workshops at Glide in which theater, music, and movement were used to explore women's stories of physical, psychological and sexual abuse. Requiem revisits the pain, investigates the grief, and celebrates the survival of the battered woman who chooses to move towards the end of her self-made rainbow.